Re: Big problem - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Markus Bertheau
Subject Re: Big problem
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Msg-id 1085409418.3252.4.camel@dicaprio.akademie1.de
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In response to Re: Big problem  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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В Пнд, 24.05.2004, в 16:12, Tom Lane пишет:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> > A guy on the IRC channel managed to accidentally click the wrong thing
> > in phpPgAdmin and managed to remove superuser privileges from his only
> > superuser.
>
> No sweat; we've seen this one before.
>
> Stop postmaster and start a standalone backend.  Now you are a
> superuser, and you can create a new superuser, or just go in and UPDATE
> pg_shadow to make your original user super again.  Exit standalone
> backend, restart postmaster, have a beer.

The question whether we should prevent this from happening stands; I
think we should.

--
Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de>



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